Statement from PEN International: 08 July 2016 Update #1 to RAN 07/16 PEN International welcomes the decision by the Angolan Supreme Court on 29 June 2016 to conditionally release writer Domingos da Cruz and 16 activists jailed alongside him in...
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Statement from PEN International: 27 June 2016 PEN International is deeply concerned by the recent closure of The Post, Zambia’s leading independent daily newspaper. The closure stems from a dispute with the Zambia Revenue Authority which alleges that The Post...
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Notebook from PEN International: London, 24 June 2016 It is not often that I get to write a letter with some good news. But a few good things happened in the last few weeks, and therefore it is good to...
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Statement from PEN International: 23 June 2016 RAN 12/16 PEN International has learned that blogger Zelalem Workagegnehu’s appeal against his sentence of five years and two months in prison on terrorism charges will be heard on 6 July 2016. Detained...
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PEN South Africa will be sharing an online reading in support of Palestinian poet Ashraf Fayadh, who has been sentenced to death for apostasy in Saudi Arabia. The Worldwide Reading in support of Ashraf has been organised by the international...
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